AI Is The Worst

So stop Being a Spectator

Yes, indeed, AI is the worst. Not because the tech is bad but because this version (the clumsy, occasionally wrong, surprisingly useful version we have today) is the weakest one you’ll ever meet. It’s only going up from here.

The tools will get faster and smoother. They’ll become like electricity: present, and expected.

Most people are missing the point. I hear the same excuses every day: “I’m waiting until it gets better,” or “I’m not a tech person”, “I heard it makes a lot of mistakes.”

Later is a fantasy. By the time “later” arrives, AI won’t be a novelty. It’ll just be the way things are done. Right now, you can still be the person who experiments while everyone else is shrugging or making jokes and at the same time being scared about robots.

The people who ignore this aren’t going to be competing with software. They’re going to be competing with the people who started using it two years ago. That’s a much harder fight.

It Isn’t About Coding

I’m not talking about sitting in a basement wearing VR goggles (actually also cool!). I’m talking about your actual life. Use it to summarize that long article you don’t have time to read, or to organize your messy thoughts after a long day. Use it to plan a trip or brainstorm a business idea on a Tuesday.

These aren’t science-fiction scenarios. They’re practical tools for curious people, women like us, who are not done thinking, creating. When you start now, you’re building comfort. You’ll know exactly where the tool helps and exactly where it fails. That confidence compounds over time.

The Only Real Divide

The gap won’t be between the young and the old, or the technical and the non-technical.

It’ll be between the curious and the resistant.

The curious person opens the tool and tries something. The resistant person spends three years explaining why they don’t need to. History is usually pretty unkind to that second group.

If you feel behind, don’t worry. We’re still in the dial-up phase of this story. It’s awkward and occasionally ridiculous, which is why right now is the best time to jump in.

Learn while it’s messy. Learn while mistakes are normal and nobody is grading you. Learn while people are teaching you to log in and write simple prompts.

Well, you’re in luck, go read my book, you genX nerd! ChatGPT, GenX edition

Open one tool today. Use it for one real task. Don’t try to “master” anything. Just stop being a spectator. AI is moving forward, and the genie is not going back in the box, and it isn’t going to wait for you to feel ready.